ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,999, issued on June 30, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy les Moulineaux, France).

"Process for searching for sensitive data in at least one data packet, associated device and system" was invented by Mohamed Boucadair (Chatillon, France) and Christian Jacquenet (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying sensitive data in at least one data packet emitted by at least one terminal connected to a network, items of identification information relating to an identity and/or environment of an entity to which the at least one terminal belongs being able to be determined from sensitive data having been inserted into ...